Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

glen gordon wrote:

> Grzegorz:
>> I am pretty sure that even if uvulars existed in
>> early PIE, they developed into spirants (*H) or
>> into the glottal stop [...]
>
> Hmm, interesting considering the *q/*h2 alternation
> in some words like "bone", *qost-/*h2ost- appears
> to go against your point. It also requires that *q
> still exist at the time of IE alongside its
> fricativized forms.

Why H2 here? And not H3? Cf. Latin os, costa, Greek osteon, all with -o-.

I'd rather see proto-IE *qW, *qu or *qo here which yielded *ko ~ *H3o in
PIE.

*H2 can be in 'goat' instead: see Greek aig- (but here -i- is
unetymological).

Grzegorz J.



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